Learn about civic tech
This category collects different learning resources about civic tech. You can find from blogs that explain how to enhance the relationship between people and governments to podcasts and films on how humanitarian organizations are responding to crises. The collection also includes books, newsletters, research, catalogs, reports, and information about courses, trainings, and workshops.
Global Fishing Watch
Global Fishing Watch is a collaboration among SkyTruth, Oceana, and Google to map and measure fishing activity worldwide using data from the Automatic Identification System (AIS), a ship-tracking syst...
City Of Tomorrow
It explores how different stakeholders in the Smart City ecosystem can come together to build safer, more efficient and sustainable cities of the future.
Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
Emerging Digital Technologies & Citizen Participation
Eleven Predictions on the Influence of Emerging Technologies
The CUTgroup book
Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech By Daniel X. O’Neil and the Smart Ch…
Programme on the Governance of Emerging Technologies
This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.
Mobile Data for Social Good report
UN report of 200 mobile data for social good projects
Center for an Informed Public
To resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.
Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN)
Making technologies work for governance, accountability, and civic participation
Pew Research Center data
Pew Research Center makes most of its datasets available for download once reporting has been completed for a given study. Here's how to find and access our data.
GovLab Academy
TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF PUBLIC ENTREPRENEURS
Association Civic Tech Europe (ACTE)
Representing Civic Tech at the European scale.
The Project on Governing the Digital Public Sphere
To support the Yale Information Society Project’s work on how law should regulate and social media companies should govern the digital public sphere
China Green Horizon
China Green Horizon is a project between Beijing’s municipal government and IBM Research to improve the accuracy of air quality assessments.
The Civic Data Design Lab
“Big data” will not change the world unless it is collected and synthesized into tools that have a public benefit.
The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto
The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy...
Institute of Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro
studies the impact and future of technology in Brazil and in the world
Catalogue of all projects working to solve Misinformation and Disinformation
This article is my attempt to create and maintain a comprehensive list of projects attempting to address the misinformation and disinformation problem in a scalable, systemic fashion. Efforts which…
Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sobre Internet CLISI
Centro de Investigaciones y actividades academicas en torno a entornos digitales
Prototype Fund Projects Catalog
A collection of the many projects the Prototype Fund has supported, including many civic tech and open data projects.
Strong Towns
Strong Towns is a non-profit organization working to support a model of development that allows America's cities, towns and neighborhoods to become financially strong and resilient.
Global Forest Watch
Global Forest Watch collects crowdsourced, geographic data to track environmental degradation around the world.
Code for Development
Inter-American Development Bank's repository for open-source software
CivLab
CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.
Code & Response (film)
A film about civic hackers and digital humanitarians responding to crises
Sunshine Week
Across the country, Sunshine Week is marked by panel discussions, workshops and other events about using and understanding the latest developments in freedom of information resources.
PeoplesHub.org
PeoplesHub is an online interactive school where you can learn and share new tools, skills, and strategies for making change where you live.
CityLab
Through original reporting, sharp analysis, and visual storytelling, CityLab informs and inspires the people who are creating the cities of the future—and those who want to live there.
Justice Innovation Startup Lab
Learn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.
Infomocracy
Infomocracy by Malka Older | Tor.com Publishing
InBloom
Initiated in 2011 through $100 million in seed money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, inBloom was a nonprofit student data repository that made clea...
Project for Public Spaces
Our placemaking blog connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, places, and events that have come out of the placemaking movement.
Institute of Information Law
The University of Amsterdam’s organisational structure and governance model.
OpenGov Foundation
The OpenGov Foundation is a fiercely apolitical nonprofit dedicated to serving those who serve the people in America’s legislatures.
Citizen Data Lab Amsterdam
A research lab that addresses local issues through participatory data practices: methods, approaches and tools for co-creation to learn about and through data.
Count the Nation
The USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and Wise Entertainment have assembled a powerful coalition of experts in media, communications, data, technology and journalism to ensure everyone knows how much censu...
Humanitarian Data Exchange
Find, share and use humanitarian data all in one place
UW Tech Policy Lab
The Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington brings together experts in law, information, and computer science to enhance technology policy.
Senseable Cities
Urban imagination and social innovation through design & science
Citizen Engagement Journal
Citizen Engagement tools and services for city governments
Enexis Open Data Agenda
Enexis, a Dutch energy company, makes anonymized data about residential gas and electric energy use publically available via its website.
MSc Media and Communications (LSE Data and Society)
MSc Media and Communications (Data and Society)
The Project on Democracy and the Internet
To field-leading study of the challenges that democracy faces in the digital age and what reforms are needed
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Civic Signals
Civic Signals aims to inspire and connect designers and technologists to build more flourishing, public-friendly digital spaces.
BU Initiative on Cities
The Initiative on Cities engages with urban leaders, academics, and policy makers from around the world to help plan for the development of essential services and sustainable infrastructure necessary...
Civic Tech Innovation Network's Medium
The Civic Tech Innovation Network newsletter and online magazine is produced by the journalism and media lab, university of the witwatersrand, johannesburg
Data & Policy Journal
Data & Policy is a peer-reviewed, open access venue dedicated to the potential of data science to address important policy challenges.
Civic Projects Directory
Browse our community’s project directory to identify where you can volunteer.
Evaluating Civic Open Data Standards
A research paper aiming to determine which standards for civic data are “best” to open up government data.